• E4J University Module Series: Firearms

• Module 5: International Legal Framework on Firearms

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • International public law and transnational law
  • International instruments with global outreach
  • Commonalities, differences and complementarity between the global instruments and tools for their implementation
  • Tools to support the implementation of the global instruments on firearms and conventional weapons
  • Other United Nations processes
  • The Sustainable Development Goals
  • Multilateral and regional instruments
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

•  

• First published in July 2019
  

•  

 

   This module is a resource for lecturers   

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides and video material, that could help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. Lecturers can adapt the slides to their needs.

Best practice guides

• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (2003). Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons.
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (2018). Minimum Standards for National Procedures for the Deactivation of Small Arms and Light Weapons.
• Acharya, Nikhil, Nikkie Wiegink and Salah Idriss (2015). Civilian Arms Registration and Marking Handbook. BICC.
• Centre for Armed Violence Reduction. Combatting the Illicit Arms Trade with the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Training Guide for Working with Pacific Governments.
• Saferworld, OXFAM and the University of Georgia. National Implementation of the Proposed Arms Trade Treaty: A Practical Guide
• UNODA. Modular Small-arms-control Implementation Compendium (MOSAIC).

Videos

• What is the Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary. (8:00 minutes).  » Stuart Casey-Maslen, the co-author of the book "The Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary", and Honorary Professor, University of Pretoria, and Honorary Research Associate, Bristol University School of Law, explains the main principles of the ATT.
• Disrupting Illicit Arms. (36:32 minutes).  » Robert Muggah, Principal of SecDev Group and Research Director at Igarape Institute, presents the arms trade, its actors, and demonstrates the value of the international small arms/ammunition trade and the global distribution of small arms/ammunition holdings.

 

Back to top